Tomislav Nikolic

Tomislav Nikolic (15 February 1952-) was President of Serbia from 31 May 2012 to 31 May 2017, succeeding Slavica Ducic Dejanovic and preceding Aleksandar Vucic.

Biography
Tomislav Nikolic was born in Kragujevac, FR Yugoslavia in 1952, and he worked as a businessman before entering politics with the Serbian Radical Party. Nikolic and Vojislav Seselj co-founded the SRS, and both of them were enemies of Slobodan Milosevic. However, Nikolic served as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 1998 to 1999 and of Yugoslavia from 1999 to 2000, when Milosevic's coalition government collapsed. In 2003, he became the Radical Party's deputy leader, and he briefly served as President of the National Assembly from 8 to 13 May 2007. In 2008, he formed the Serbian Progressive Party as the result of an argument with Seselj concerning Serbian membership in the European Union, which Nikolic supported.

In 2012, Nikolic was elected President of Serbia, and he was controversial for his previous support for a greater Serbia, the expulsion of Kosovo's Albanians to Albania, the cession of Vukovar from Croatia to Serbia, his denial of the Srebrenica massacre, and his bigoted comments towards Asians and women. In 2017, Aleksandar Vucic succeeded him as President.